History & Criticism

"A masterly book . . . will prove of great assistance to a student of Japanese literature and thought from the eleventh century onwards."--Times Literary Su...

Ama (diver) -- Atsumori -- Aya No Tsuzumi (damask Drum) -- Chikubu-shima -- Eguchi -- Funa Benkei (benkei Aboard Ship) -- Hagoromo (feather Mantle) -- Hanjo...

A stunning full-color, illustrated, behind-the-scenes guide to the Good Omens television series, adapted for the screen by Neil Gaiman himself and starring...

From The Turn Of The Century To The 1960s, The Songwriters Of Tin Pan Alley Dominated American Music. Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George And Ira Gershwin, R...

Celebrated And Maligned With Equal Vigor, The Bloomsbury Group Is The Best-documented Artistic Coterie In Twentieth-century Literature. The Novelists Virgin...

Throughout his life (1905-2006) Stanley Kunitz created poetry and tended gardens. This book is the distillation of conversations, none previously published,...

Through the story of the brilliant but conflicted young Raskolnikov and the murder he commits, Fyodor Dostoevsky explores the theme of redemption through su...

A Cloth Bag Containing Ten Copies Of The Title.Categories: RomanceContemporary

The major statements of the leading figures in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century German and French hermeneutic traditions.Here are the major statements...

She can detect any poison. He can decipher any clue. To find a killer, they make a perfect pair... Publishers Weekly Quick (aka Jayne Ann Krentz) deliver...

Tom Piazza’s sharp intelligence, insight, and passion fuel this new collection of writings on music, literature, New Orleans, and America itself in despe...

Draws On The Conversations And Experiences Of Students In The Author's Writing Class To Offer Practical Insights And Advice On The Craft Of Writing, Stressi...

Featuring seven new, never-before-published poems in addition to Chinua Achebe's award-winning earlier work, Collected Poems makes available again after mor...

Jack Reacher’s Rules is the ultimate fan’s guide to the World of Reacher! Featuring selections from all seventeen electrifying Jack Reacher novels and a...

A Memoir About The Year 2016 In Which Dreams And Reality Are Interwoven -- Provided By Publisher. Following A Run Of New Year's Concerts At San Francisco's ...

Everyone’s favorite Idiot Girl, Laurie Notaro, is just trying to find the right fit, whether it’s in the adorable blouse that looks charming on the mann...

No Art Has Been Denounced As Often As Poetry. It's Even Bemoaned By Poets: I, Too, Dislike It, Wrote Marianne Moore. Many More People Agree They Hate Poetry...

Paris, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague, 1937. In the back alleys of nighttime Europe, war is already under way. André Szara, survivor of the Polish pogroms and ...

Bulgaria, 1934. A young man is murdered by the local fascists. His brother, Khristo Stoianev, is recruited into the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence ser...

A critical examination of Grass's work offers overwhelming evidence that Cat and Mouse and Dog Years are part of a unified structure begun by The Tin Drum a...

The renowned animal lover shares the heartwarming stories of the various animals that inhabit the Black Beauty Ranch, animals that have been saved from deat...

Contains Shakespeare's Play Involving Young Athenian Lovers, A Boisterous Group Of Local Tradesmen, And The Monarchs And Subjects Of The Fairy Kingdom; And ...

"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history," Arthur Miller wrote i...

The Feminist Writer And Author Of The Amanda Cross Mystery Series Looks Back On A Youthful Pledge To Commit Suicide At Seventy, Explaining Why, Given That H...

This anthology of folk and fairy tales brings together 52 stories from a range of historical and geographic traditions. Sections group tales together by t...

About the Author\PAIGE SHELTON had a nomadic childhood, as her father's job as a football coach took her family to seven different towns before she was even...

'My New Year's Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memorie...

A Whopping Big Celebration Of The Work Of The Late, Great Nora Efren, America's Funniest-- And Most Acute-- Writer, Famous For Her Brilliant Takes On Life A...

Product Description “Feminism, history, literature, politics—this tale has all of that, and a heroine worthy of her own turn in the spotlight.” â...

Sunrise On The Pier -- Morning Coffee -- Pumpkin Season -- Shaping Heartsongs -- Awakening After A Close Call -- Wishes -- Mosaic Of Gifts -- Embracing Each...

Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks features sparkling interviews with one of America's most valued poets. Throughout this book, which spans three decades,...

THE NEW YORK TIMES & USA TODAY BESTSELLERIn a compelling, richly researched novel that draws from thousands of letters and original sources, bestsellin...

My Ántonia: Willa Cather's Masterpiece Historical Novel of the Immigrant ExperienceCategories: Literature & Fiction Historical Fiction20th Century

Designed for Developmental Writing courses (Essay level). An appealing alternative to the popular Reader's Choice, now in its third Canadian edition, Read...

Firebrand Ny Times Columnist And Bestselling Author Lindy West Unpacks The Beloved Rom-coms And Cult Classics We Love In Order To Dissect The Culture We've ...

In this uplifting anthology, some of Blue Mountain Arts best writers share their inspiring words and thoughts. Readers are encouraged to take control of th...

It Is Often Said, Even By Critical Scholars Who Should Know Better, That Writing In The Name Of Another Was Widely Accepted In Antiquity. But Religion Schol...

Stephen King.Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Thrillers & Suspense SupernaturalGhosts

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author behind the Starz original series The White Queen comes the story of lady-in-waiting Margaret Pole and her uniq...

Before the notion of "political correctness" encroached on the ways people spoke, wrote, and conducted themselves in public and private, some of America's ...

No Fear Shakespeare Gives You The Complete Text Of macbeth On The Left-hand Page, Side-by-side With An Easy-to-understand Translation On The Right. each No...

The Harry Potter Books Were Just The Beginning of the Story... During the brief span of just one decade, hundreds of millions of perfectly ordinary peopl...

Explores The History Of American Film Noir, Focusing On Its Dreamlike, Erotic, Ambivalent, And Cruel Atmosphere, And Setting It In The Social Context Of Mid...

alice Munro, Who Received The National Book Critics Circle Award For Her Latest Collection Of Stories, the Love Of A Good Woman, Is Widely Acknowledged As...

Here are The Prince and the most important of the Discourses newly translated into spare, vivid English. Why a new translation? Machiavelli was never the du...

Elegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media―from poetry and screen painting to tea ceremonie...

This novel offers a contemporary and explosive picture of the nuclear family, which pivots on the bizarre odyssey of a Japanese father and son.Categories: P...

In The Art Of Time In Memoir, Critic, Editor, And Memoirist Sven Birkerts Examines The Human Impulse To Write About The Self. Memoir Is, For Better And Ofte...